The TREC .GOV collection makes a valuable web testbed for distributed information retrieval methods because it is naturally partitioned and includes 725 web-oriented queries with ...
Sampling has been successfully used to identify performance optimization opportunities. We would like to apply similar techniques to check program correctness. Unfortunately, samp...
: Legend says that Archimedes remarked, on the discovery of the lever, “Give me a place to stand, and I can move the world.” Today, computing pervades all aspects of science an...
Noun phrases in queries are identified and classified into four types: proper names, dictionary phrases, simple phrases and complex phrases. A document has a phrase if all content...
In a multicluster architecture, where jobs can be submitted through each constituent cluster, the job arrival rates in individual clusters may be uneven and the load therefore need...
Ligang He, Stephen A. Jarvis, David A. Bacigalupo,...